The new Anglers' Trust -- Are they Awake to Fluoride Dangers?

According to a Guardian report by John Vidal and Graham Mole on Wednesday 14 January. Six fishing groups have joined forces to become the new Anglers Trust. This could make them one of the biggest conservation bodies in Europe, with the political muscle to rival the National Trust, the RSPB and Friends of the Earth.

They hope to sign up one in five of Britains 2.7m regular anglers, who are divided more or less equally between sea and inland water fishing enthusiasts. Mark Lloyd, chief executive of the new organisation said, "Anglers are not the usual woolly liberals you get in the WWF or the National Trust. They range across urban and rural areas and comprise both working and upper class members. Together they are very powerful,"

They are very concerned about declining fish stocks, river pollution, and industrial developments for, as they say, there's little point fishing if there's no fish, so half the work will be campaigning. The new organisation will be able to represent all anglers much more efficiently and effectively at national and international level, something which the the small angling groups could not do.

The trust which includes coarse, game and river anglers is expected to lobby government and corporations reverse the damage caused by over-fishing, and sand and gravel extraction, and to prosecute polluters and reduce the volume of water taken from rivers. They also plan to campaign to stop farmed fish escaping into the wild. Anglers have long been regarded as the eyes and ears of the water environment: alerting the authorities about damage to British waters and frequently prosecuting polluters.

I for one hope that they will also turn their attention to the prospect of water fluoridation which the British Government is insanely pushing on an unwilling public. Perhaps when they realise that 97% of all fluoridated water will not even touch people or their teeth at all, will be discharged immediately into our river system from our drains via the sewage treatment plants.

Research in the USA discovered that fluoride levels in river water as low as 0.21 parts per million could stop Salmon spawning but water fluoridation entails levels of 1.0 parts per million plus, not including fluoride pollution from industry and other agricultureal food sources. Some foods especially teas, contain rather high levels of fluoride as do crops sprayed with pesticides and many processed foods. Add to this tens of thousands of tonnes of the toxic waste known as hedafluorsilicic acid which water fluoridation will entail, we should not be surprised to see the hard work of the Environment Agency and the Anglers pressure groups thrown into reverse.

Anglers are not alone when it comes to facing a major threat from fluoridation. Any organic food grower who relies on river water for irrigation is also in for a nasty shock when they find their produce is no longer fit for accreditation by the Soil Association who are also concerned by the threat the fluoridation poses. and not attractive to members of the public looking for chemical free food.

FLUORIDE, BFS SICK TO THE BACK TEETH.

The British Fluoridation Society (BFS) not content with poisoning our water supplies, are now trying to poison or damage our freedom of speech. They have got a real strop on about pictures of teeth damaged by dental fluorosis on UKCAF handouts, one of which you can see on this blog. The pictures show what is described as "moderate fluorosis" a condition common in many fluoridated parts of the world and also in places where fluoride occurs naturally. Texas USA and India come immediately to mind. The BFS clearly dont like the idea that this embarassing and disfiguring condition can occur in childrens' teeth if fluoride is added to our water supplies. The Governments own York Review and Hampshires' Water Fluoridation Panel agree on this. The pictures in question are graphic evidence of what children may expect as a result.

The BFS are so furious about this that they have referred the hand outs to the Advertising Standards Authority although personally I cannot actually see why the ASA should be involved at all. After all, UKCAF are not selling anything and one would think that News or Opinion or Fair Comment would not be within the ASAs remit. I have seen other pictures from various places which show teeth in even worse conditions than those on the UKCAF hand outs and they are far from pretty.

One could be forgiven for thinking that the UK Councils Against Fluoride would themselves be at least irritated by this but on the contrary, they are delighted. As UKCAF puts it, "At last the BFS is being forced to justify its obstinate rejection of internationally accepted scientific evidence in a public forum. We will be posting both sides' arguments here as this long-awaited confrontation develops - so watch this space!

Perhaps we will at last see the BFS produce some up to date evidence that fluoride really is "safe and effective" or even just effective at all. Sadly the BFS like the British Dental Association and the American Dental Association often make these sweeping statements, but generally factual scientific data which actually justifies fluoride or water fluoridation is about as common as fairy turds.

Visit UKCAF at http://www.ukcaf.org/

WHY FLUORIDATION IS UNETHICAL, UNNECESSARY, INEFFECTIVE AND UNSAFE

Fluoridation is unethical because:

It violates the individual's right to informed consent to medication.
The municipality cannot control the dose of the patient.
The municipality cannot track each individual's response.
It ignores the fact that some people are more vulnerable to fluoride's toxic effects than others. Some people will suffer while others may benefit.
It violates the Nuremberg code for human experimentation.

Fluoridation is unnecessary because:

Children can have perfectly good teeth without being exposed to fluoride.
The promoters (CDC, 1999, 2001) admit that the benefits are topical not systemic, so fluoridated toothpaste, which is universally available, is a more rational approach to delivering fluoride to the target organ (teeth) while minimizing exposure to the rest of the body.
The vast majority of western Europe has rejected water fluoridation, but has been equally successful as the U.S., if not more so, in tackling tooth decay.
If fluoride was necessary for strong teeth one would expect to find it in breast milk, but the level there is 0.01 ppm, which is 100 times LESS than in fluoridated tap water (IOM, 1997).
Children in non-fluoridated communities are already getting the so-called "optimal" doses from other sources (Heller et al, 1997). In fact, many are already being over-exposed to fluoride.

Fluoridation is ineffective because:

Major dental researchers concede that fluoride's benefits are topical not systemic (Fejerskov 1981; Carlos 1983; CDC 1999, 2001; Limeback 1999; Locker 1999; Featherstone 2000).
Major dental researchers also concede that fluoride is ineffective at preventing pit and fissure tooth decay, which is 85 percent of the tooth decay experienced by children (JADA 1984; Gray 1987; White 1993; Pinkham 1999).
Several studies indicate that dental decay is coming down just as fast, if not faster, in non-fluoridated industrialized countries as fluoridated ones (Diesendorf, 1986; Colquhoun, 1994; World Health Organization, Online).
The largest survey conducted in the U.S. showed only a minute difference in tooth decay between children who had lived all their lives in fluoridated compared to non-fluoridated communities. The difference was not clinically significant nor shown to be statistically significant (Brunelle & Carlos, 1990).
The worst tooth decay in the U.S. occurs in the poor neighborhoods of our largest cities, the vast majority of which have been fluoridated for decades.
When fluoridation has been halted in communities in Finland, former East Germany, Cuba and Canada, tooth decay did not go up but continued to go down (Maupome et al, 2001; Kunzel and Fischer, 1997, 2000; Kunzel et al, 2000 and Seppa et al, 2000).

Fluoridation is unsafe because:

It accumulates in our bones and makes them more brittle and prone to fracture. The weight of evidence from animal studies, clinical studies and epidemiological studies on this is overwhelming. Lifetime exposure to fluoride will contribute to higher rates of hip fracture in the elderly.
It accumulates in our pineal gland, possibly lowering the production of melatonin, a very important regulatory hormone (Luke, 1997, 2001).
It damages the enamel (dental fluorosis) of a high percentage of children. Between 30 percent and 50 percent of children have dental fluorosis on at least two teeth in optimally fluoridated communities (Heller et al, 1997 and McDonagh et al, 2000).
There are serious, but yet unproven, concerns about a connection between fluoridation and osteosarcoma in young men (Cohn, 1992), as well as fluoridation and the current epidemics of both arthritis and hypothyroidism.
In animal studies fluoride at 1 ppm in drinking water increases the uptake of aluminum into the brain (Varner et al, 1998).
Counties with 3 ppm or more of fluoride in their water have lower fertility rates (Freni, 1994).
In human studies the fluoridating agents most commonly used in the U.S. not only increase the uptake of lead into children's blood (Masters and Coplan, 1999, 2000) but are also associated with an increase in violent behavior.
The margin of safety between the so-called therapeutic benefit of reducing dental decay and many of these end points is either nonexistent or precariously low.

The above is an extract from an excellent article entitled The Absurdities of Fluoridation' by Paul Connett PhD. which can be found at http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2002/12/18/water-fluoridation-part-two.aspx

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT -- MUST WAKE UP TO FLUORIDE DANGERS.

QUEENSLANDERS FOR SAFE WATER, NOT TAKING FLUORIDE LYING DOWN

The Government in Queensland may have swallowed the dirt dished out by the American and British Government idiots but the good people of Queensland refuse to play dead and are fighting back. There is growing dissent in the USA against fluoridation and many towns and cities are now overturning previous fluoridation decisions. The tide is turning here in the UK as well. Little wonder when you take a few minutes to look at recent fluoride research which demonstrates how useless and dangerous this muck really is.

People do not like paying out taxes so that some numpty in parliament or the local council can poison innocent people and trouser a pile of dosh for doing it. The same goes for dentists either too corrupt or too frightened to stand aside from the discredited orthodoxy that still tries to sell and profit from fluoride and fluoridation.

If fluoride does have one useful purpose it must be the fact that it is now exposing to public view, the politicians we really dont want or need. I refer to the stupid, the outdated, the corrupt, the dishonest, the deceitful and all those who are a danger to democrasy and the will of the people. Ask them a few straight questions about the efficacy of fluoride or about its safety and you will discover the same tosh they always spout about it being "safe and effective" when its about as safe and effective as arsenic or lead.

Its a wonder they don't advocate putting asbestos in the water so we dontt catch fire. Perhaps they should try the latter on themselves becasue its very hot where these dudes are going to end up if they continue with this deception . You can always tell when these nutters are telling porkies, their trousers move when they speak.
For those who like some truth or facts, please check out this broadcast from Tennessee.


Keep on fighting Queensland you have common sense and intelligence on your side. Say No to Truth Decay... Say No To Fluoride.

PCTs -- Waste, Incompetence and Corruption in Equal Measures.

For the most part, it is not the Doctors nurses or dentists who are the problem with the modern NHS, as per usual its the ever growing hordes of pen-pushers, seat polishers, puppets, parrots, rubber stampers and political appointees, often referred to as Middle Management who seem to be the biggest drain on NHS resources. Naturally these people gravitate to the Primary Care Trusts PCTs where they can do the most damage for the littlest effort.

The PCT is an environment in which expertise, local knowledge, sincerity and good intentions can quickly drown in the quicksand of Newspeak, Reports and Targets so beloved by politicians and mandarins alike. Even apparently sincere people with the best of intentions can soon find themselves on the road to hell in such an atmosphere.

Health Ministers of various political colours have come up with much guff and inappropriate policies over the years. The Tories for example as a first stage of making the NHS a two-tier service, contracted out cleaning services to private companies clearly lacking in thoroughness and expertise. Dirty wards and exponential growth of MRSA or C Dif were the obvious and predictable result.

The current regime quickly grabbed the baton and ran with it, setting about the destruction of NHS dental services and encouraging private dentistry thus placing NHS dentists on the endangered species lists. Here in East Lancashire for example according to the local press, at the last count more than 40,000 people could not find a dentist at all. Little wonder that hospital A and E units are drowning under a tsunami of emergency patients.

In East Lancashire they still were not content and closed the Burnley General A and E Unit despite massive objection from all quarters. Now doctors waste thousands of pounds on taxis up and down the M65 fuelling CO2 emissions, and operations and treatments take place in ambulances. Councillors have told me several horror stories about the results of this madness. How ironic it is that the nearest A and E Unit for patients in Pendle in East Lancashire is now in North Yorkshire. When the NHS is run by such a mindless government, is it any wonder that the PCTs are just pathetic glove puppets?

Only the other morning on BBC Radio Four, like some sick Christmas present, a new report stated that care and compassion in the NHS had declined further during 2008. And what is the governments answer to this type of revelation? Why nothing less than a new web site where the public could award or punish their GP,s in a farcical top ten Beauty Parade. Having tried and failed at moving the deck chairs on the Titanic, they are now re-painting them. What next I wonder? A new movie... “Health Service 2” with Alan Johnson as Lex Luthor??

If you still think senior figures in the NHS, PCTs etc actually know what they are talking about or what they are doing check out the following extracts printed in the Gloucestershire Gazette On the 23rd December 2008. “The PCT is awaiting a feasibility study on the project but members of the trust board said they were in favour of fluoridation.” Chairman Chris Clarke told a meeting of the board last Wednesday: "I can see no problem and it makes an awful lot of sense." Nobby Clark can see no problems hahahaha and fluoridation makes an awful lot of sense hohoho. I think we should pay particular attention to the word “Awful.” Rather obviously, even before any feasibility study or consultation has been carried out, they have already made up their minds to add this crap to Gloucester's water supply.

Perhaps the biggest plonker on Gloucester NHS must be non-executive director David Hardwood who said "There must be a lot of health benefits other than dental. I imagine(sic) fluoride helps with all sorts of things. “ Now that's what you call a vivid imagination freed from all constraints of knowledge and common sense. "I just can’t quite see why we have to go into such detail on fluoridation when companies already put all sorts of cocktails of chemicals in the water to purify it." Doh !!!

Mr Hardnutt not only cannot see, but also has no wish to do so and best of all does not understand the subtle but non the less important difference between treating and purifying the water and treating and polluting the consumer. Make no mistake about it, adding fluoride is pollution. Isn't it nice to know that the health of Gloucester is in such a safe pair of claws.
Those who wish to read the full tosh er... I mean text, can find it here. http://www.gazetteseries.co.uk/search/3990079.Fluoride_could_be_flowing_through_taps/
Of such arrogance and stupidity are PCTs made and I have absolutely no hesitation therefore in nominating Mr Woodentop and the Gloucester NHS as the first contender for the 2009 Flat Earth Award. If its true that ignorance is bliss, the NHS/PCT in Gloucester must now be approaching Nirvana.

2008 Good News - Bad News!

Despite the latest news from Queensland Australia and Southampton in the UK, on balance, I would say that 2008 has been a positive and progressive year in the fight against fluoride and those who advocate it. Opposition world wide has never been stronger or more determined and there are now signs that the tide is at last turning.

In the UK for example, after sterling work from the UK Councils Against Fluoride and with help from the Fluoride Action Networks' Paul Connett, the Isle of Mann government rightly gave fluoride and the fluoridistas the bums rush. This was achieved not by militant or radical action but by campaigners ensuring that there was a frank and open debate which allowed the public, the politicians and the media to examine the science and the facts. When the oxygen of publicity actually reaches the subject of fluoridation, the majority of those sitting on the fence usually turn against fluoridation. All the bull in the world from the BDA or the BFS amounts to nothing when confronted by the facts. Le; fluoride is not a medicine, fluoride is not safe, fluoride doesn't work and people don't want it.

Similarly, Local authorities all over Lancashire were also far from impressed by the unscientific tosh emanating from the lips of meshuggeners such as the Chief Medical Officer, Ellis Friedland and his truly pathetic Power Point presentation. This consisted of a lot of guff about the Government paper chase and only one page about the science which showed a diagram of a tooth which was attacked by sugar and carbohydrates and saved by fluoride. How we laughed. Perhaps the best nail in this coffin is the truly excellent research and and report from Hampshire County Council which one must presume all Government glove puppets are desperate not to read.

Friedlands' cohorts at the East Lancs Primary Care Trust seem to know even less than he does but of course when push comes to shove they keep schtum in anticipation no doubt of some reward at a future date. Their lethal combination of ignorance, fence-sitting, smug indifference and incompetence (which is used world wide and not just here in the UK) allows the fluoridistas to browbeat and brainwash the public, the media and governments into believing their lies and nonsense. The latest example of which is a clearly planted article in the Daily Telegraph, a paper which once actually read press releases before printing them.

If you can actually force them to show their hand in a scientific discussion, fluoride is quickly shown up as the complete rubbish it really is. But this is difficult because they will not usually show up at open meetings unless they have themselves convened them and even when they do make a public appearance, they always forget to bring any evidence with them. PCT meetings are supposed to be open to the public of course but here in Pendle, they handed out a variety of different stories to people who phoned for advice about the next meeting, and promised to keep us all informed about when fluoride would be discussed. Despite all this public interest however, they still managed to “forget.” to let us know.

Now however, even in the USA, where this political poison first took root, the election of President Elect Obama brought with it victories for scores of Towns and Cities who now reject fluoridation. The issues are making major news on TV and the Press and heated arguments are being heard in various councils. Criticism is coming from a wide range of medical and academic sources as new evidence is reviewed and people are at last realising that fluoridation really doesn't work in any meaningful way and that its' wide ranging dangers outweigh any discernible benefits. One must hope that with a new administration in power later this month they may care to look at evidence that fluoridation is particularly hazardous to Afro Americans and Hispanics and take the appropriate action.

But enough of the good news. The British government still exemplifies the fluoridistas combination of indifference, incompetence and corruption of the democratic process and hardly makes any pretence at consultation or involvement of the people Indeed, it has spent a small fortune of our money, has ignored all the evidence and public opinion and seems set dump the poisonous crap in Southamptions water and some of Hampshires too. Shame on all who have supported fluoride in the face of all evidence and criticism, and, come the next local or general elections, lets hope the public insist they make career moves away from the area. Perhaps most sadly of all, Australias' Government is now using the same tactics to force fluoride down the throats of it citizens, and runs along behind the British Government like a Corgi sniffing an Alsatians bottom.

Whether it be post office or accident and emergency closures or fluoridation of drinking water, the much vaunted “consultation” is always a total sham and millions of taxpayers £s are wasted to bully the public into accepting the inevitable. In 2003, they even enacted extraordinary new laws granting water companies, “immunity from prosecution” in the event of an accident with fluoridation and “indemnity for loss of income” due to public refusal to pay for polluted water. It remains to be seen how long these “laws” survive when the Class Actions and the Credit Crunch effects surface. Fluoride? Just say No!